Karim Sadjadpour is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on Iran and U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle ...

The uncertainties of Trump’s attack on Iran are enough to justify some queasy doubts.

Donald Trump’s plans to oust the Iranian regime, which led to the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made some of his advisers ...

And in that sense every war is an accident.” The U.S.-Iran war—or, to be accurate, its latest and most dramatic ...

American diplomats are supposed to represent the nation, advocate for the interests and policies of the U.S. government, and ...

The American bombardment of Iran has been launched without explanation, without Congress, without even an attempt to build ...

Countries such as Saudi Arabia once wondered whether Tehran could be appeased and contained. Now they do not.

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How does a life spent studying gender equality translate to someone’s real relationship? In 2021, Joe Pinsker wondered if the ...

In the U.S., by contrast, a few hundred dollars a month for a relatively short period of time, typical of guaranteed-income pilots, rarely matches the steep costs of housing, child care, and health ...

The rulers of Iran have committed outrage after outrage against the rest of the world and their own people. They sought nuclear weapons to commit a second Holocaust against Israel, as they repeatedly ...

The strikes killed Iran’s 86-year-old supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who led Iran’s move away from the West and made the country a power player in regional security. His body was reportedly ...